Word: amateurness
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Hirschman has spent his professional life as a physician and his spare time cultivating his interest in amateur radio. And at practically every stage, he has brought the two together...
...relaxed she rarely seemed to do more than speak the lines with generalized emotion - you could almost see her thinking through the script. There were whoops and cheers from the fans, understandably. It was Madonna they came to see, and Madonna she always remained. So what if it was amateur hour? Inconveniently for Madonna, another fêted American, Gwyneth Paltrow, arrived on London's theater scene this month. Paltrow herself had much to prove in her own London stage debut, starring in David Auburn's Proof (a Broadway hit last year) at the Donmar Warehouse. It's directed...
Meyssan's theories on the New York City attacks are even more counterintuitive. He cites unnamed "professional pilots" who claim the strikes could not have been carried out by neophyte flyers. Meyssan then recounts testimony from similarly unidentified New York amateur radio operators, who say they picked up signals of navigational beacons within the towers, guiding the planes to their targets. With acidic mockery, Meyssan casts the events of Sept. 11 and those that followed as the work of a virtual shadow junta within the U.S. government that has manipulated media and public opinion...
Meyssan's theories on the New York City attacks are even more counterintuitive. He cites unnamed "professional pilots" who claim the World Trade Center strikes could not have been carried out by neophyte fliers. Meyssan then recounts testimony from similarly unidentified New York amateur radio operators, who say they picked up the signals of navigational beacons within the towers guiding the planes to their targets. Using tones of stony authority fused with acidic mockery, Meyssan casts the events of Sept. 11 and those that followed as the work of a virtual shadow junta within the U.S. government that has masterfully...
...cloth over it. It looks like memory trying to be recaptured, wavering up to meet us through layers of consciousness and efforts of repression. But it is not in any real sense "expressive." Richter is the man who notoriously said he could find more interest in the dumbest amateur snapshot than in the finest Cezanne. This with a straight face...